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Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370 115 _ Other charges of obstructionism upon which the plain- tiffs rely amount to nothing more than nonfeasance, or failure to act. Again, the fragmentation of the complaints creates difficulties. These matters are all interrelated and when they are viewed in the light of a nonsupportable claim of conspiracy as to the raid, the prosecutorial immunity, the nonexistence of claims based upon mere negligence, the existence of law violations in the illegal possession of firearms and the fact that the plaintiffs who were offered an opportunity to appeer and participate in the post-raid investigations declined to do so, I find no merit in the claim that the charged obstructionism was the basis for an action against the defendants. 3. Groth’s informant. I must confess that I fail to comprehend the considerable emphasis given to this matter. I have no idea whether Groth did or did not have his own informant; but I cannot agree with Judge Swygert’s conclusion that the lack of or unreliability of the informant, or the furnishing of incorrect information by the’ informant, would, on the facts of this case, place the search warrant in any serious jeopardy. I do know that a knowledgeable and reliable informant-known to be such - - - to a law officer provided information which was passed through a reliable chain of law enforcement officers into an application for a search warrant and the information so furnished was correct. And it was on this judicially issued search warrant that the police officers acted as they had to do. At one point in their brief, the Anderson plaintiffs say they are seeking to learn the identity of the informant in order to “try and find” evidence of illegality. Mere speculation or suspicion that an informant might be of some assistance should not be sufficient to overcome the public interest in the protection of an informant’s identi- ty. The matter of protecting the identity of a confidential informant, in my opinion, is one of extreme importance in law enforcement. Perhaps if this were the best of all worlds, spying would not be tolerated because there